“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
Lots of folks have been talking recently about a September [acp author=”Federal Court” title=”Judgment of the First Civil Senate of 12.09.2013 – I ZR 208/12″ year=”2013″ month=”September” day=”12″ id=”GFC-01″ url=”http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&Datum=2013-9&Seite=5&nr=65732&pos=170&anz=263″]German Federal Court ruling[/acp][acp footnote]I found an HTML version that I could run through Google Translate here.[/acp] that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function
Don’t opt-out of spam?
Yesterday, [acp author=”Laura Atkins” media=”blog” title=”Don’t unsubscribe from spam!!” id=”Atkins-01″ url=”http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2013/11/dont-unsubscribe-from-spam/” month=”November” day=”18″ year=”2013″]{author}[/acp] wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam. I know that this is a project that she’s been working on for at least a month, and I don’t have any reason to doubt
Wherein Zoominfo causes spam
Zoominfo, DiscoverOrg, and Lead411 are popular lead generation sources. Every once in a while someone comes along and tries to defend the use of crowd sourced list generation services (of which ZoomInfo and Jigsaw seem to be the largest). These systems work by allowing people to download contact information for third parties in exchange for the
Looking at a spam stream: The story of Jimmy Walker
I was recently asked about how to go about proving that someone was not obtaining email addresses in a direct, opt-in manner. The methodology won’t surprise you, and if you have been involved in helping problematic clients for a while, the results might not even surprise you. The “someone” at issue was a payday loaner.